{"id":49156,"date":"2023-04-20T20:23:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T03:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=49156"},"modified":"2023-04-20T20:23:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T03:23:26","slug":"%f0%9f%93%9a-otherness-by-david-brin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/04\/20\/%f0%9f%93%9a-otherness-by-david-brin\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f4da; Otherness by David Brin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1255,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/f399983b-4fc3-4c06-8d9c-c9d24a17bc33&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>21\/2023 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/f399983b-4fc3-4c06-8d9c-c9d24a17bc33\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not bad, but it as it turns out, I definitely prefer Brin\u2019s novels to his short fiction. To my mind, he does better when he can really dive into something. His shorter works are missing a certain spark.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_9333-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Otherness\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-49157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_9333-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_9333-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_9333-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_9333-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_9333-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not bad, but it as it turns out, I definitely prefer Brin\u2019s novels to his short fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[4200],"class_list":["post-49156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-david-brin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}